Technology essay

Today, I am publishing something completely different. Recently I wrote an essay / personal opinion on the future of technology and because my work and study are strongly associated with technology, I thought this topic as very interesting. If you like this type of topic you may want to read it 🙂

Writting an essey was the task to get an internship. Question was:
“How you see technology making our lives, health, relationships and environment better in the future?” 
As you can see this question is a bit one-sided, so in this essay I do not write about my worries and anxiety about new/future technology.

 

Dziś publikuje coś zupełnie innego. Ostatnio napisałam esej / osobistą opinię na temat przyszłości technologii i ponieważ moja nauka i praca są silnie związane z technologią uznałam ten temat za bardzo ciekawy. Jeżeli lubisz tego typu temat może warto go przeczytać 🙂
Napisanie eseju było zadaniem, aby dostać się na staż. Pytanie brzmialo: 
“Jak widzisz technologię czyniącą nasze życie, zdrowie, relacje i środowisko lepszym w przyszłości?” 
Jak możecie zauważyć to pytanie jest troche jedno stronne, dlatego w tym eseju nie umieszczam moich zmartwień i obaw dotyczących nowoczesnej technologii.

According to the new study of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ” ant colonies are surprisingly efficient at forming intelligent networks that can rapidly spread information”.

Nowadays, the ability to transmit the knowledge is more important than ever before.  The technology is a part of our everyday life but the most important is awareness about how to use it. What would happen if nobody would share his/her experience. In my opinion we would not progress.

Management and utilization of the information will play one of the biggest roles in the future, people have to learn how to use it.  Computers, tablets, smartphones month by month are getting smarter, monitoring of people and machines is becoming inseparable part of everyday life (Social Network, Google Glasses, etc.).  In which way all this technology can improve our life in the future? One of the examples can be collecting relevant data, thanks to which producers can predict how much and what product they should produce what will save cost and in most of the cases will be more sustainable for environment.

The future of technology is sometimes controversial. Lets take for example Genomics, the DNA sequencing technology. Genomics use the scientific methods and technologies to modify living organisms (including cloning, stem cell research). In the next generations it will allow researcher for better understanding  diseases or the way to repair body from injures. Of course there are many questions raised on ethical, legal and social fields, mainly because of interfere with nature. There is a huge potential in that field and I believe it can help to solve a lot of problems with which struggles medicine today.

The another big topic which was around for a while is Robotics. Robotics is an interdisciplinary field of technology connecting areas such as mechanics, automation, electronics, sensor technology, cybernetics and information processing. Robotics are also identified with artificial intelligence what is another controversial subject in our times. The best example we can see in the movie ‘Mechanical Love’ by Phie Ambo which illustrates the interrelationship between humans and robots. In the future we will see expanding role of the robots in everyday life. Autonomous airplanes already exist, it is the matter of time to see autonomous vehicles on our streets. How will it influence our lives? In my opinion Robotics can make humans’ life easier if there are used accordance with the principles of morality. They can for example reduce the number of road accidents by using driver-less cars, make lonely people happy by creating a robotic friend as in Mechanical Love, help at households what will give to people more time for human interactions, etc.

I believe that technology will solve one of the biggest problems of our times – producing and storing energy, which is needed to create/use all things mentioned above. At this moment, the fossil-based fuels provides about 85% of all the energy. Their extraction and burning is not environmental friendly like for example extraction of the shale gas which causes chemical contamination of the groundwater. Using removable energy like sun, water and wind is already more sustainable and has smaller impact for the environment. Improving battery capacity in the devices and vehicles is an important part of improving the human usage of energy.

There has been always a lot of questions about the future, how the technology will look like. I am sure that everything happens for its reason and new technology will make everything to make our life more efficient. It depends from humans how it will be used and for what reasons.

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A few photos I took during my trip to Oulanka National Park, Finland /// Kilka zdjęć wykonanych podczas mojej podróży do Parku Narodowego Oulanka, Finlandia